I’ve added some additional pics of the ball. As some have suggested, this mat we’ll be a spring training ball, and my grandfather had no connection to Boston, he might have vacationed once or twice in Florida. I’ve tried to look for any signature that looks like it could be Hank Aaron’s, and apparently the earliest signed balls from him in 1953/1954 he signed as “Henry” not Hank. I see one possible Henry under Sid Hudson’s signature, but the last name looks like Brown, not Aaron.
If this ball is from the March 14, 1954 spring training game, and Aaron perhaps played his 1st game with a major league team game that day, that would be quite interesting.
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